Soon after his return from a thought-provoking trip to China in 1956, Italian artist Aligi Sassu began several large-scale oil paintings, which included The New China that he finished three years later.

For the first time, mysterious Indian rulers and royal life are unveiled in front of Chinese audiences at the Palace Museum, igniting sparks from the cultural collision between the two ancient civilizations.

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